The Taite Protocol – Comprehensive Veteran Recovery Framework

• Therapy (CBT): Baseline for everyone. Identifies distorted thinking and replaces it with realistic thoughts; teaches coping and relapse prevention.
• Therapy (DBT): Add-on for high-intensity cases. Teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
• Group Therapy: Provides accountability, reduces isolation, builds community, and reinforces skills learned in individual therapy (process groups, skills groups, psychoeducation).
• Nutrition: Stabilizes mood, energy, and physical healing.
• Exercise: Builds resilience, improves brain chemistry, regulates stress.
• Sleep & Health Hygiene: Restores cognition, mood stability, and immune strength.
• Vocational Rehabilitation: Provides purpose, structure, and relapse protection.
• Housing Services: Ensures safety and stability, reduces relapse risk.
• TMS: Effective for treatment-resistant depression.
• Somatic Experiencing: Addresses trauma stored in the body.
• Neurofeedback: Enhances brain regulation, attention, and impulse control.
• EMDR: Processes and resolves trauma/PTSD.
• Medication Management: Psychiatry oversight—SSRIs, MAT when needed, stabilizes mood and cravings.
• Peer/Community Support: Provides social glue through AA, NA, SMART Recovery, etc.
• Aftercare & IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program): Extends treatment, maintains accountability and structure, supports long-term recovery after residential care.
• God: Having a power greater than yourself provides strength, connection, and ensures lasting success in recovery.

This protocol addresses the whole person—mind, body, spirit, and environment. CBT is the foundation for all, DBT is added for high-intensity emotional cases, and group therapy creates synergy with individual therapy. Combined with medical, social, lifestyle, and spiritual interventions, this approach provides total coverage so no cracks are left for relapse.